Smart Decorating Idea: Add Color with Light

When you think about adding color to a room, paint is often the first thing that springs to mind, or buying a gaggle of throw pillows for your tan sofa. Here's something new to consider: add colored light instead. It's another decorating tool in your toolbox to pull out and alter the look and feel of a room. See how these six spaces manipulate light to create different mood or function...

Above, an Australian beach house, designed by Clare Cousins, glows faintly peach in the bedroom. It's one of several pastel features in this otherwise largely plywood home.